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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
GORDON IN THE PARDON INDUSTRY

Elsewhere will be found an account of
the Dalton, Ga, mob, which burned Gov
ernor Gordon in efigy for committing
the death sentence of the murderer
Holmes, who killed woman, Matilda
Holmes. The indignation of these peo-
pie was an indication of public opin-
ion all over the country, and which is set
ting in against the pardon business, as it
is now beginning to be called. Here was
less woman-condemned by the people,
through jury, to expiate the crime by
the surrender of his own life, which was
no better, or more precious, than that of
his victim. Governor Gordon steps
in and deliberately annuls the
sentence. The executive department
not only interferes with, but overrides the
judicial, and, neutralizing its DEGREES,
gives aid and comfort to the criminal
classes.
In the Communication of Holmes, Cover
nor Gordon has taken part with crime,
and, by holding forth immunity, simply
invited continuance of such tragedies.
This pardon and communication business
is now one of the most fruitful sources of
Generalization among the conservative
forces of society. When a man commits
willful murder, let him hang. This, in
spirit, was one of the laws of Moses, and
it has proven to be one of the wisest.
Society, in its war upon crime, cannot
afford to be cheated out of vengeance on
the assassin by any governor who, as in
Gordon's case, in his haste to save vii
liam, loses sight of the safety of human
life in general.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14

ceaseless energy and industry have
brought on temporary insomnia, and he
will be obliged to take long and thor
ough rest. He is surely entitled to an ex-
tended vacation. He has worked hard and
successfully in the past and has won high
place In the literary and journalistic
worlds.
Mr.. Moses Fraley, of St. Louis, now So
journing at Long Branch, was never de-
clared bankrupt. He lost great deal
of money in some adventurous specula-
tons few years ago, and was forced to
temporarily suspend. He rallied in a
short time and paid his creditors one
hundred cents on the dollar, which was
regarded as a very remarkable and plucky
thing. He has since made fortune and
is enjoying it.
1t has been said that Mrs. Langtry was
the first woman to take out papers of
American citizenship. This is a mistake.
Mrs. Breckenridge, of Breckenridge Place,
Pa, is native of Germany. Some years
ago she wished to become one of the in
corporators of ferry company. 1t was
decided by legal authority that it was nee
essary for her to take out papers of citi-
zenship, which she did on December 16,
1882. She heads the list.
Edgar Fawcett has again appeared be-
fore the Boston public in a
letter dated at the Union club,
New York. The Boston Post devotes
over half a column to this more or less in
coherent epistle. Mr.. Fawcett's object is
to publicly express his thanks to William
D. Howells for supporting him in his re-
cent contest with the Boston critics. In
his letter Mr.. Fawcett talks good deal
about "an authors dignity" Writing
such letters to the newspapers is far from
dignifed.
The cabinet meetings of the present
administration are very informal affairs.
President Cleveland sits at the head of
the table and opens the proceedings by
presenting matters concerning which he
desires an expression of opinion. After
everything presented by the president has
been discussed, the secretary of state fol-
lows with his budget. The other cabinet
officers follow in the order of precedence,
the attorney general coming last. There
is nothing like set speech, and it is not
the custom to take vote on any question
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
FIELD STILL LOVES HIM.

And Field still loves Gould! But, why
did he not mention Sage? We're not both
those worthless implicated in the late Man
haitian deal, by which Field lost 30 heavily
IT'S said ito err is human, to forgive di-
vine"-then, indeed, must the soul of
Cyrus w. be filled with more than the milk
of human kindness, but is running over
with that faith in human friendship that
buoys him up to the smiling point, even
midst the tottering ruins of princely
fortune. But, if Field is sincere, why
does he not exert his influence upon Gould
to have the Associated Press reports,
which paint Gould and Sage
as gloating over the fall of
the great and ambitious Field, changed
to suit the facts of the case! Does Gould
love Field less since the fall, or do both
these gentlemen still entertain for each
other beautiful and soulfully intense af-
lection? 1t is touching, in this latter day,
to note how like brothers the greatest
financial rivals of the age can dwell to-
gether-it can almost be said of them,
"sweetly glides their life without sigh"
But then, is it all true, or is Field now
paving the way for little deal of his
ownY
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

1t is said that Sarah Bernhardt invested
the bulk of the money made here last sea-
son in American real estate. She should
come back and be naturalized.
heseoretary of the treasury has sent a
silver medal to Miss Edith Clark, of San
Francisco, for saving a schoolmate from
drowning on August 81, 1886.
Secretary Whitney's picnic on the Fourth
at "Grasslands," rendered the employees of
the navy department, was great success.
1t was largely attended, and everybody
seemed to have good time.
The son of JOSHUA Z. Giddings, the old
Ohio abolitionist, lives at jefferson, the
county seat of Ashtabula county. He
practices law and runs a farm, but he
takes very little interest in politics. The
son of Ben Wade lives in the same town.
He gives himself up to horses and lets
politics alone.
1t is reported that ex-senator Jones, of
Florida, has finally left Detroit. He Dis
said to be on his way to Europe, whittier
MISS Palms has gone before him. There
is some surprise expressed in Detroit at
his sudden departure, as many of his in
'estments IN that city are beginning to
make large returns.
1t is said that ex. Governor Pattison, of
pennsylvania, has become great favor
lie at the White House, and is likely to
succeed Secretary Lamar, if the latter be-
comes supreme justice. If there is
prominent democrat in the country who
has not been mentioned as a posaible sue.
cessor TO Mr.. Lamar, he should come for.
ward at once and give his name.
j. r. Whipple, proprietor of Young's
hotel, Boston, has recently taken out $780,
700 insurance upon his life. Of this
100000 is a life policy, 100000 is twenty
years endowment, and 100000 is fifteen
years endowment. He proposes to make
1t hot for the insurance companies when
ne dies, but man so well covered ought
to live couple of hundred years.
The illness of John Boyle O'Reilly, of
Boston, is cause for general regret. His
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
GOOD CITIZENS.

The immigration question is careering
through the country aud everywhere is
receiving a black eye; at least, the kind
of immigration that has always been al
lowed with US, the unquestioned, abso-
lutely free admission to our shores of
every variety of foreign tramp. Recent
expressions on this subject are to the
point. Upon the occasion of the Fourth
of July celebration in Illinois, Senator
Cullom said: SIN part, this country has
been called the land OF the free and the
asylum of the oppressed. SO it has been,
80 it is now, but it is not and should not
be allowed to be the dumping ground for
all the paupers and criminals of other
lands. The time has come when the bars
of our country should be put up and
fastened against such an imposition. 1t
should have been done before now. We
invite all to come with honest purposes
to be law abiding citizens, who can care
for themselves and will labor for the
upbuilding of the government. But we
have no place for fugitives from justice,
for dynamiters or lawless classes of any
character. We talk about the protection
of human industry and home labor, yet
home labor, either native or naturalized,
cannot be protected while the gates of
our ports of entry are opened wide to
tens of thousands of persons sent here by
other countries to tighten their own bur-
dens."
And on the same day Powderly, the
head of the laboring classes of America,
is reported as saying before vast as
semblage at Scranton, Pa: "He thought
immigration, under wholesome condi-
tions, good thing, but seemed to think
there was altogether too much of it of an
indiscriminate sort for the good of labor.
If he had his way he would see to it that
every immigrant should be able to show
that he was self supporting for one year
before landing on these shores.
This Is the tenor of the feeling all over
the United States-no objection to good,
steady, honest class of immigration; it
will be encouraged; but the day for cleans
ing Europe at the expense of the United
States must stop, and at once. The test
of the power for self support, proposed
by Powderly, is good one. This, or
something after its fashion, wilt soon be
the law; the circumstances demand it, the
laboring classes are bent upon it, the good
order and cleanliness of our institutions
will compel it; the sooner it comes the
better.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
THE PEOPLE WILL SETTLE 1T.

The st. Louis Republican very truly re-
marks that the studied insults offered the
president of the United States by mill
tary aristocracy, who claim to be above
the law, and who have threatened the chief
executive with personal violence, like Gar
field, presents an issue before the people
which they will settle.
1t can be seen that Mr.. Cleveland has
acted coolly, dispassionately, periodically,
throughout this strange business; but the
insult to the highest Office in the gift of
the people remains. Like the Republican,
we believe the people, in their own good
time, will settle it with the Grand Army of
the Republic.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
NORTHERN SENTIMENT.

If it is not dawned, it ought to dawn
upon the Grand Army of the Republic
at least that portion of it who have been
matchmaking the president-that, in
the language of Lord Byron, not only are
their intellects not very vast, but they
really belong to past era. Fairchild, and
the fanatics who endorsed his notorious
palsy imprecations, no more represent
the masses of the northern people at the
present day than the Paleozoic rocks rep
resent the later geological eras. A new
generation, both north and south, has
grown up since the events in which the
Grand Army performed its part; genera
ton with new ideas, new aims, different
surroundings and influences, which have
worn off the preiudices of quar-
ter of century ago; generation that
really takes only historical interest in
the late great civil war. The young men
and women of to-day know nothing of
slavery except as they read of it, and the
issues that made this country, for four
years, one vast military camp are dead
and buried, with their hates and preju-
dices, so far as the rising generation is
concerned.
The Grand Army of the Republic in
their treatment of President Cleveland do
not represent the people of the north, nor
their sentiments. They represent them
selves; they represent period of hate,
blood and destruction period that is
past. The Grand Army of the Republic
are the fossils embedded in recent strata
of American history, but are without sig
nifcance as regards the present.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14

The following editorial from the Mis-
souri, Republican is an excellent statement
of the case:
The Utah convention proposes to guar
antee the destruction of polygamy by a
serious innovation on the existing system
of government. Polygamy is to be pro-
hibited in the constitution on which Utah
applies for admission in penal clause
operating without further legislation; the
pardoning power in cases of polygamy
is to be surrendered to the president, and
the constitutional sections relating to it
cannot be changed without the consent of
congress. II admitted on this basis, Utah
would not be on an equal footing with the
other states. Its government would be
territorial, as far as polygamy is
concerned, and the departure from
the original plan of union OF equal
states would be more radical than was
ever considered necessary in the struggle
over slavery. The Mormon convention
makes these propositions as guarantees
that this feature of Mormonism will be
surrendered, but such a constitution is
confession that the people who frame 1t are
not capable of local self-goyernment. Till
Utah can come into the union as an equal
state, with institutions in harmony with
those of the other states, it is best for it
to remain outside. 1t is doing very we'll
as territory; it may finally do vel as
state, but it cannot be state and territory
at once.
Before Utah is admitted into the union
as a state, positive and lasting pledge
of the abolition of polygamy should be
given, but this pledge should be in a shape
consistent with true state government, and
such as to place Utah, in this respect, on
an equality with her then sister states.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14

IT is reported that Blaine, on his way
across the ocean, yielded to the demon
sickness, and under protest took
glass Of wine, whereby his innocent
daughters were beguiled, and they too
slipped of the wine "when it was red" The
effect was excellent, though Maine may be
shocked. And the report further pro-
ceeds with the information that upon a
later day OF the trip, the great and only
Blaine did mingle with the German ele-
ment on board ship and partake Of their
beer, whereupon they clinked their glasses
aud drank to "Mr. Blaine, the next presi-
dent" The price of naturalization papers
is low.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
AUSTIN'S DRILL

movement is now on foot that will
take definite shape in the early fall, look
ing to make Austin the scene of a large
state and interstate encampment and
drill some time during the spring of 'SS.
Active and earnest young men, who have
never yet, in any undertaking, acknowl-
edged defeat, have the matter in hand,
and their connection with this new enter
prise is the beast earnest of its success.
The plan will be quietly but steadily
worked up during the summer,
and the general details will be
furnished the public IN the
fall, when all the citizens will be called
upon for active and liberal cooperation.
Such an encampment will not only well
pay for itself, even during it's existence.
but will rebound to the great good and ad
vantage of the town. Austin can, must
and will have this drill, and the young
men pledged to secure it can be relied
upon to carry the preparations for it
through to success.
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that they have determined he must be
ostracised, boycotted, spurned by good
society,". e. by the G'aad Army of the
Republic. And they will not parade-by
all means let them have their
pleasure. Cleveland will survive the
touching sense of "goneness," because of
their absence: the business of the nation
will continue to prosper, as usual, and
even the slumbers of great people, per
haps, with souls too base to be attuned to
the threnody of those precious four, will
be as deep and refreshing as ever in the
history of the nation. Let them not
parade, by all means, and the country will
still be safe and happy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
RECENT ASTRONOMICAL THEORIES.

Professor Proctor, the distinguished
English astronomer, in late original
article in the Popular Science Monthly,
enunciates some new and highly inter
esting theories concerning the origin of
the great meteor belts now known to re-
volve within the orbits of the outermost
planets. A European scientist, little less
prominent than Proctor himself, some
time ago put forth the theory that the
small meteoric bodies, or fragments,
which swarm in the inter planetary spaces,
having some sort of connection with
comets, were originally expelled from the
stars by the same force that 10 now
proven to expel matter from the body OF
the sun so far into space as TO be beyond
and independent of its attraction. Pro-
lessor Proctor argues against this theory,
and in doing so, substitutes one of his
own, which he supports with numerous
facts we'll known to astronomers. 1t is
that the earth, at one period of its exist
nce-during the early eras of the cool
ing process-was a body much like the
sun is at present, Like the sun, the earth
was then an eruptiye body, and like him
and with similar forces, which our planet
does not now possess, shot out into space,
beyond the attraction of gravitation,
fragments of itself, which, obcying the law
of combined centripetal and centrifugal
force, now reVolve within the orbits of the
giant planets. Proctor shows from we'll
cases OF meteoric stones
that have fallen on the earth, the entire
similarity of their metals and other con-
tents to those on our planet, sufficient, in
his opinion, to indicate their mundane
origin. He disproves the idea of the
stellar origin of the meteoric belts, or
that they have been attracted from the re-
yions of space outside the solar system
and held within it by such giant outside
planets as Uranus and Jupiter.
Scientists and lovers of astronomy will
iud most interesting and instructive
field of thought and inquiry in the grand
problems of the visible universe unfolded |
by so able thinker as Professor Proctor. |
In his recent meteoric theory he has only
added to his just fame as philosophic
student of the almost inscrutable wonders
of natures vast and completely constituted
realm.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14
WE WONT PLAY.

So four Grand Army of the Republic
posts of Utica will not parade at the Gin
ton centennial if Cleveland is present! Ye
gods and little fishes! To what pass
have we come at last! In the eyes of that
wonderful self-important body of men
the Grand Army of the Republic, we
now not only labor under the sinful dis
grace of having democratic president
railing over these United States, but such
miserable specimen of humanity is he
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14

Passenger conductors have struck an
other bad month. On Friday last Con-
ductors Burke, Porter, Ballew and Admi-
raj, of the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois,
were dropped from the pay rolls, and
freight conductors appointed to their
positions, and it is said that two more are
to go. All of them had been on the road
twelve to fifteen years, and the notice of
their dismissal was much of surprise.
Four conductors on the New York Central
and two conductors on the Lake Shore
were also dropped last Friday.
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